WORLDLINESS
"Worldliness is destroying the church of Jesus Christ. The time is thus right for us to biblically expose and condemn worldliness, and to promote the alternatives of genuine piety and holiness."
— Joel BeekeAre we Christians? Or are we worldlings?
The sweeter morsel for the worm!
You have saved the best until now!
The world's pleasures are often curses in disguise!
If this is happiness--then give me misery!
You may get a ticket straight to hell, by express!
The world's politics, pleasures, and pursuits!
When you wallow in the mud of worldly pleasures!
Even though he had a shipload of such rubbish!
Will we be numbered with cat-worshipers and dog-adorers?
288 opinions about the way to happiness
Lord, dig the earth out of my heart!
Wholly taken up with contriving methods of amusing themselves
What amusements are lawful to people who wish to live a holy life?
The theaters are fountains of vice!
I warn you against evil Books and evil Pictures!
If we spend our time on the newspaper, or sit hour after hour reading trashy novels!
Giddily gliding along the broad road that leads to destruction!
Who cares for pebbles--when jewels glitter before him?
One of the broadest avenues that lead to destruction!
Looking firmly at the cross of Christ!
This pleasure-loving, pleasure-seeking, pleasure-inventing age
A decent, flowery, down-hill way to eternal destruction!
The most generally prevailing and ensnaring sin
The burning of these old Ephesian books!
That is all they have to enjoy!
Turn away from the lovely enchantress!
The most powerful charm of Satan
Hell would be the place of greatest pleasure
True Christian living in the world
Prayer for weanedness from the world
Three daughters which are bred by prosperity
Vanity of vanities, all is vanity!
A beautiful harlot sitting in her chariot!
Beware of the nail and the hammer!
The Devil's Mission of Amusement
Where does all this vanity come from?
The school of thoughtlessness and vanity
The devils are scrambling for his soul!
The creature has a little honey in its mouth--but it has wings!
If you attempt to enthrone the creature!
He has altogether lost his relish for them
A painted happiness, a gilded misery!
I bequeath my pastor's soul to the devil
Only another name for "Trouble"
Then the worm became a splendid butterfly
When you see a dog following two men
We could not make the angels happy
We may be in the world--and not be injured by it!
Here is the conclusion of the matter:
Alas! you are likely to dance and frolic yourselves into hell!
What a pitiful perishing portion is that!
The rich followers of this poor Savior
Something either to dissatisfy or nauseate
You can't love God and the world
He who eats the grapes of Sodom--
will soon drink the wine of Gomorrah!Sunk deep in the mire of worldly-mindedness
They are all really worthless!
Worshipers of the golden calf!
A Christian and yet a worldling?
Yellow and white guts and garbage
An honest, heart-felt preference of better things
One of the most pathetic sights in this world
Sweet poisons! (the whole sermon)
There are some things that money cannot buy!
Propensity for amusements and entertainments
A showy and expensive style of living
The prevailing sin of Christians
An unfavorable soil for the growth of piety
The sooner we reach this conclusion
Ten thousand are destroyed by its smiles!
Content his soul with earth's poor dust
Three worms which often breed in prosperity
It is time that I am done with all butterfly-hunting!
Worldly men varnished over with religion
The pursuits of butterflies and grasshoppers, and canary birds!
If you wish to become weak-headed, unstable, and good for nothing
The sum total of worldly enjoyment in those two ciphers!
We find that they are empty bubbles!
Ah! Poor soul--it is the rich man who goes to hell!
Beware then of the vortex of worldliness!
The mad desire of plenty and pleasure
Elegance, entertainment, and luxurious gratification
A love for pleasure, diversion, and recreation
What makes the children of God so strange?
Building air-castle upon air-castle!
The way to Hell looks pleasant!
The only sin which may be indulged
Encroaching, absorbing, and destructive!
We are not to set our affections on them!
The littleness of all earthly things
A cold chill fell upon their hearts!
Enthralled with the doll or the rattle
The poor things of time and sense
Slaves to the customs and temper of the world
These Gergesites had rather lose
Christ, than lose their porkersThe world will lose its charms!
Poor ephemeral things which cannot last
Don't touch their filthy things!
Groveling among the baubles of this world
If you are at home in the world
Pambus wept when he saw a harlot
Nothing but a huge clod of dust
I believe it to be a public duty to warn people against cheats, quacks, and impostors!
Of all weary, flat, dull and unprofitable ways of spending life!
Look at the smiling beauty in the ball-room!
It will come in at every chink and crevice!
The world passes away, and the lust thereof
We chase it like a bubble in the air!
We find that they are empty bubbles
This cheating and deluding scene.
What are all the gilded toys of time?
Swimming down the stream of vanity and folly
We were not always a set of poor mopes
Those who hunt after it are dogs!
Seriously engaged about trifles
Seductive scenes of giddiness and mirth
Madam Bubble we have seen with her mask off, and are not to be fascinated by so ugly a witch!
These fugitive, transitory things
If you been a dog, a toad, or a serpent
Where lions have their dens and panthers prowl
That ever promising, yet ever deceiving world
Our own health, wealth, and gratification
We have expected too much from 'the creature'
She had left her heart behind her!
An ark of safety in the flood of vanities
Romantic dreams of pleasure and earthly joy
In the world--and yet not of the world
In the world, and yet not to be of the world!
Very distinct from this poor, fallen, degraded world!
Intoxicating to the unregenerate heart?
When you come to creep into your hole
What a poor, uncertain, dying world is this!
Grovel in the dust to gather pebbles
The increasing rage for novel reading!
The dirt-scrapers of this world?
If the world loves us, smiles on us, and speaks well of us!
A powerful and ever sleepless foe!
The largest slice of the well-sugared cake
The vain delights of this world
A ball, a concert, a festivity, a party!
There, on the other side, is my solitary soul
The sights and shows of this perishing world?
Choked by life's worries, riches and pleasures
A canker into the very core of your spirituality!
The more worldly pleasure--the less happiness
The most devouring idol in all the world!
To separate us from worldly things
Quaff the muddy and turbulent streams of earth?
A worldly spirit will ever peep out
Separation from the ungodly world
The deadliest enemy of holiness?
The evil spirit which haunts the rich man
Toys! Sports and games for children!
We must not expect much in this base world
We convert our blessings into poisons!
The muddy waters of this world
What phantoms they will chase!
The sad record of many a religious professor
The crying evil of our times!A life of ease, leisure, and luxury
When it comes in the guise of a friend
What trifles, what toys, what empty vanities
The sooner we reach this conclusion ourselves?
He is tossed from vanity to vanity
Short-lived, imperfect and unsatisfying
The more worthless will this world appear!
For a moment of sinful pleasure
The net of earthly, carnal, sensual engagements!
What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!
Nothing on earth can satisfy the soul!
Crush this fearful, powerful foe!
The besetting sin of Christians
Precarious, insufficient, and ensnaring
RECREATION, SPORTS & AMUSEMENTS
The insipid frivolities of the world!
Our idolatrous love of worldly things
Let us live more for eternity!
He awoke with everlasting flames about his ears!
The world's coveted possessions!
THE BAUBLES AND THE BUBBLES OF THIS WORLD
If we could see the Crucified One?
All the houses in this plague stricken land
A demon that has wrung the neck of many souls?
The only legitimate purpose of amusement
They would not be so anxious to save money!
Christ in the heart, and the world under the feet!
Three things that earthly riches can never do?
What the world offers to its devotees?
They cherish the viper, though it stings them to death!
The things the pagans are always concerned about
Could you grasp the world like an orange
A wilderness of 'bitter sweets'
The Christian and the world...
This world brings only 'change'
Can Hollywood and Holiness co-exist?
The Vanity of All Worldly Things
While we mourn over our many maladies
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